P1P Monthly Report: September

September was another crazy month here at P1P. We had a few technical issues this week due to moving our website to a new host, but we’re back and better than ever. We also have something pretty crazy in the works for next week, so stay tuned! In the meantime, this is what we did in September:

Foreign Affairs

In this article, Jon talks about how important it is to put some actual work into your link building campaigns– it’s the only way to good good links on sites that make sense. Whether you’re creating content or asking for a resource link, each and every link requires some serious thought and elbow grease.

In this piece, Jon tells you how to add some additional value to your link building campaign using multiple strategies and a little creative thinking. He gives a staggering number of suggestions to get your creative juices flowing.

Jon explains why “relationship building” is no substitute for link building, and that it’s not your primary goal in a link building campaign– links are. Jon doesn’t downplay the importance of relationships, but he does discuss why forcing a relationship is never the way to go.

Homefront

In this piece, Dustin takes a whimsical look at how many links it takes to get to the top of the SERPs, but then turns it around and provides some great concrete data collected from 160 hours of original research.